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RECORD NUMBER: — 177-10001-10064

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DATE: — 11/23/1963
PAGES : 2

SUBJECTS :
CUBA

DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT
CLASSIFICATION: — Secret
RESTRICTIONS: — Consulted
CURRENT STATUS: = Withhold
DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 08/13/1993

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- CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ; ao ° :

This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning “of the. “Espronege hows, Tite ig, us.6-Sa.
743 ao 794, 5-48 frensmission or raveletion of which in en .

y manner fo an unauthorned | perion is prohibited by ‘taw.

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COUNTRY CUBA

REPORT NO. Tes-3/5 565,826

SUBJECT COMMENTS OF CUBAN OFFICIALS ON THE
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY’ 2°05) 2 Ue

PRECEDENCE, -ROUT INE. “Ste °

DATE DISTR. 23. NOVEMBI é

DATEOF 22 NOVEMBER 1963

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PLACE& © CHILE, SANTIAGO (22 NovEMBER 1963) , eM
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APPRAISAL SEE BELOW ; FIELD REPORT NO. 13 Pie

THis is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT TENE
A CHILEAN WHO HAS A GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CUBAN E MGA SS VEEN
SANTIAGO ACQUIRED THROUGH PROLONGED ASSOCIATION WITH: THE OFFICIALS Qiang EMBASSY.
HE 1S AN ACCURATE, RELIABLE REPORTER, a.  AOMER

APPRAISAL? iT 1S PROBABLY TRUE THAT. THE REMARKS’ WERE mee AS REPORTED, « - _ SAUNDERS

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1. THE FOLLOW ING ARE, REMARKS MADE. BY OFFICIALS OF THE CUBAN, EMBASSY IN SANTIAGO

SOURCE

REGARD ING. THE ASSASS INAT ION OF PRES IDENT KENNEDY s. oo. ;

Ae ON 2 NOVEMBER JOSE TOHA, Wice PRES IDENT OF THE. “CHILEAN CUBAN CULTURAL
INSTITUTE AND DIRECTOR OF THE PRO=CASTRO LEFTIST PRESS ULTIMA HORA , INFORMED
PEDRO MART INEZ PIREZ, CHARGE oF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN SANTIAGO, THAT KENNEDY HAD
BEEN ASSASS INATED, TOHA SAD "ESTE -ASUNTO DE. KENNEDY. SE ESTA PON IENDO COLOR DE
HORM IGAS" (Poss IBLY MEANS ASSASS INAT ION OF KENNEDY. LOOKS LIKE [T GOULD HAVE
SER IOUS REPERCUSSIONS). MART INEZ. COMMENTED THAT ‘HE HEARD THAT THe PERSON |
ARRESTED WAS PRES IDENT OF A FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMM ITTEE AND. THAT | JF THE YANKEES

OR C 1A ASSASS INATED KENNEDY TO, RESUME THE ASSAULT ON CUBA, , THEN A THIRD WORLD WAR

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_ WOULD START. HE SA ID TH INGS ARE VERY CLEAR AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THEY

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HAVE ASSASS INATED HIM, THE CONTRADICTIONS ARE WELL DEFINED AND THE MOMENT “WAS
“VERY SPECIAL, LIKE THAT OF THE MAINE, MART INEZ SAID THE UNITED STATES Is NOW
IN THE MOST DIFFICULT POSIT ION OF THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS IN LATIN AMERICA, .

THE WORLD, GOULART, ARGENT INE PETROLEUM, PERUVIAN. LANDS, CHILEAN MINES AND IN

GENERAL ALL OVER LATIN AMER ICA, TOHA SAID HE WAS VERY WORRIED AFTER READ ING

THE CABLE TRAFFIC. MART INEZ ADDED THAT IF THE USA AS THINKING OF INVADING
‘CUBA THEN THEY MUST HAVE EVERYTHING -ALL PREPARED AND. ALL THE. STRATEGY “READY AND
THEREFORE THE ALARM MUST BE GIVEN SO THAT CUBA CAN BE PREPARED,

-B, THE CUBAN CONSUL AT VALPARAISO CALLED THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN SANT IAGO. TO

DETERMINE POLICY IN THE MATTER OF FLYING THE FLAG AT HALF MAST, THE REPLY WAS.
THAT THERE ARE NO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE USA AND THAT NO OFFICIAL WORD
“HAD YET BEEN RECEIVED FROM CUBA, SO THEREFORE NOTHING SHOULD BE DONE, (FIELD
- COMMENT: THIS 1S AGAINST PROTOCOL BECAUSE THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT HAS DECREED:
OFF IC TAL MOURN-ING INCLUD ING FLYING FLAGS AT HALF MAST, ) .

C. MARTINEZ REFUSED TO MAKE FURTHER STATEMENTS PREFERRING TO. WAIT FOR

OFF IC IAL ‘WORD FROM HABANA, SEVERAL TIMES HE DENIED THAT THE ASSASS IN WAS

INVOLVED . IN THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE INS IST INa THAT THIS PERSON IS ONLY:

A SUSPECT AND THAT EXTREME. RIGHT ISTS OR SEGREGAT IONISTS. “ARE To BLAME, MART INEZ
SAID HE BELIEVED THAT THE uN HED STATES GOVERNMENT WOULD TRY TO PUT THE BLAME
ON CUBA,

2,° FIELD DISSEM: CINCSO CINCLANT.

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